ACA's not the first health-care website to malfunction

It has been interesting for me to read all the comments and opinions about the failed technology of the Affordable Care Act's Healthcare.gov website. As a pharmacist, I know that every time a change is made in an online insurance carrier or a new program begins, whether it is state, federal or commercial, there will be problems and many prescriptions will not process through the online system without phone calls and waiting.

I did not hear anyone lamenting over the awful period beginning Jan. 1, 2006, when the Medicare Part D prescription program, passed by Republican President George W. Bush, went into effect. I well remember the "failed technology" of that new program as I stayed in my drugstore alone after closing until about 10 each night for weeks working to get the prescriptions to process. Those hardships did not make the news because pharmacists are generally a reasonable and realistic people.

The conclusion of all the negative comments for me is that partisanship rules the day and there is not enough genuine concern for the implementation of a good program.

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ACA's not the first health-care website to malfunction

It has been interesting for me to read all the comments and opinions about the failed technology of the Affordable Care Act's Healthcare.gov website.